Africa, a distant and mysterious continent, has long attracted sailors, merchants, scientists, adventurers and conquerors from many countries in Europe and Asia. A lot of evidence has reached our time about the legendary journeys to Africa of the Phoenicians and Carthaginians, about the campaigns of the Greeks and Romans, about the conquests of the Arabs and crusaders. But just like thirty centuries ago, today the African continent is still fraught with many mysteries that still excite the imagination of travelers and scientists.

Authors N.N. Nepomnyashchy and N.V. Krivtsov will tell readers about the dangerous Sahara, about the knights of the mysterious Prester John, about the stone ruins of Zimbabwe, about bullfighting on Pemba, the lost city of Farini and much more.